The NYS Unified Court System is administering the Spanish Court Interpreter Exam on Friday, September 9, 2022 and Saturday, September 10, 2022. Only high school degree is required for this exam. The starting salary for the Court Interpreter is $57,166, plus $4,200 location pay in NYC. See this announcement (https://www.nycourts.gov/LegacyPDFS/CAREERS/exams/45-818_Court_Interpreter_Exam_Announcement.pdf) for more information about the exam. The exam is administered statewide. The first part of the exam is a three-hour multiple choice test. Candidates who pass will be invited to the oral examination at a later date. Typically, the list (eligible passers) is active for four years (used to ...

EverUp Micro-Credentials are FREE, 100-hour online intensives that equip CUNY students with in-demand skills and provide a competitive boost at landing internships and entry-level roles at some of New York's largest employers. Those who successfully completed the training will receive a $300 stipend as well as a LinkedIn badge. The deadline for application is Friday, June 10, 2022. The application link is https://www.surveymonkey.com/r/Summer2022Microcredentials. SUCCESSFUL COMPLETERS RECEIVE: $300 stipend (6-8 weeks after completion) LinkedIn badge "Insider's View of Getting an Internship" sessions and professional skills events Networking opportunities ELIGIBILITY Current CUNY undergraduate student (both Associate's and Bachelor's degree students eligible!) At least 30 credits completed by end of Spring ...

The NYS Court System is administering the Per Diem Court Interpreter Written Exams between June 19 and July 3, 2022. The pay rate for the Per Diem (freelance) Court Interpreter is $300 per day and $170 for a half day. Only high school diploma is required to apply (but you should be able to work legally in the U.S.). Please see this website (https://www.nycourts.gov/courtinterpreter) for more information about the Per Diem Court Interpreter positions. The exam application deadline is June 1, 2022. See the links below for more information on the exam. On the following website (the first link), you can ...

The "Language Career Fair" brings students from various majors to inquire about the pertinence of languages in the job market. The guest participants represent fields as diverse as health, business, interpreting, law, education, finance, software development and export. The participants share their experiences and explain how accurate and powerful knowing a second language has been for their career. Some of them share personal career stories and connect their knowledge of a second language to their current jobs. Each year, the event is enriched by the presence of representatives from institution, such as the UN, the Cultural Services of French Embassy, ...

How to say "I love you" in different languages and cultures. A direct translation from "I love you" does not always work. Different cultures have different ways to express affection. "I LOVE YOU" (English) أحبك (Arabic) আমি তোমাকে ভালবাসি (Bengali) 我爱你 (Chinese) Minä rakastan sinua (Finnish) Je t'aime (French) Ich liebe dich (German) Σ'αγαπώ (Greek) Szeretlek (Hungarian) Aku mencintaimu (Indonesian) Is tú mo ghrá (Irish) 愛してる (Japanese) 사랑해 (Korean) Kocham cię (Polish) Eu te amo (Portuguese) Я люблю тебя (Russian) Te amo (Spanish) Nakupenda (Swahili) Mahal kita (Tagalog) ฉันรักคุณ (Thai) Seni seviyorum (Turkish) میں تم سے پیار کرتا ہوں (Urdu) איך האָב דיך ליב (Yiddish)

Duolingo discusses the most popular second languages in the United States now. You probably can make a good guess about the most popular second language (Spanish), but you would never guess what the second most popular language is now. The top five languages are English, Spanish, French, German, and Japanese, but other languages such as Hawai'i are popular in some states.

"I will never not tell nobody nothing about it" — that is a word-by-word translation of what Russians would say, meaning "I will never tell anybody anything about it." See this Mango blog entry for an interesting introduction to how negation works in Russian.

An interesting corpus-based study by Wageningen University and Indiana University, showing that rationality declined in the past few decades while reasoning increased. Quote: 'the researchers found that words associated with reasoning, such as "determine" and "conclusion," rose systematically beginning in 1850, while words related to human experience such as "feel" and "believe" declined.'

This blog entry (https://blog.mangolanguages.com/are-some-languages-harder-to-learn) by Mango (an online language learning app) discussed different difficulty levels of new languages for English speakers. The article makes a reference to the Foreign Service Institute (FSI) language table, which is one of the most frequently cited information on the expected lengths to master different languages (for English monolingual speakers -- the chart may not work for bilingual and native speakers of a language other than English). In one version of the FSI tables, several languages are marked with asterisks, indicating it is particularly difficult in the same category.

This Pimsleur blog (https://blog.pimsleur.com/2021/07/20/differences-latin-american-and-spain_spanish/) discusses major differences between Latin American Spanish (e.g., Mexican Spanish) and Peninsular (European) Spanish, including differences in pronunciation (phonetics), the use of "vosotros," the use of "vos," and the lexicon (vocabulary). The blog summarizes the dialectual varieties in Spanish as following: "Luckily, if you learn one variety of Spanish, you will not have too many problems when traveling to another country. Within the most spoken languages in the world (Chinese, English, Spanish, Portuguese, and Hindi), Spanish has the fewest differences among its dialects."